will.s...@gmail.com (Will Senn) writes: >1. How do I change the console to use the vesa framebuffer console >(1024x768x32) which is available and works from the boot menu (is it >something in /etc/rc.conf)?
When you boot with UEFI, you get a framebuffer console and you can tell the EFI bootloader to select a vesa graphics mode with the "gop" command. A DRM driver then may attach later and take over the display. To avoid this, you can disable the driver with a "userconf" command in the bootloader. The commands can be stored in /boot.cfg. https://man.netbsd.org/boot.cfg.5 gives an example. BIOS boot gives you initially a VGA text display. You can build a custom kernel (options VGA_RASTERCONSOLE) to get a framebuffer instead and the bootloader command "vesa" lets you chose a supported mode. You still need to turn off DRM drivers so that they don't take over the display. >2. This changing from green on black of the kernel messages. Is this >only possible by rebuilding kernel with those options set? (wsconsctl >will let me set them, but I don't see how that works during boot). To use different colors already during boot, you need a custom kernel. There is only a very small number of options passed to the kernel, and the method varies between platforms. So no option exists to pass message colors.
